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The following is a list of the exports of the Marshall Islands. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top fifteen exports are listed. #
An Act for prohibiting Trade with the Barbadoes, Virginia, Bermuda and Antego or Act prohibiting Commerce and Trade with the Barbodoes, Antigo, Virginia, and Bermudas alias Summer's Islands was an Act of law passed by the Rump Parliament of England during the Interregnum against English colonies which sided with the Crown in the English Civil War (see English overseas possessions in the Wars ...
The Spanish trade of goods was sometimes threatened by its colonial rivals, who tried to seize islands as bases along the Spanish Main and in the Spanish West Indies. However, the Atlantic trade was largely unharmed. The English acquired small islands like St Kitts in 1624; expelled in 1629, they returned in 1639 and seized Jamaica in 1655.
The island country became independent in 1974 but still have a free association agreement with New Zealand and many of its citizens have become citizens of New Zealand. Now the Island country has a democracy and is governed by a legislative assembly consisting of 20 members. Niue is the smallest democracy in the world.
Islanders on remote islands had infrequent interactions with Japanese fishermen and colonial policemen. [169] However, islanders in remote villages gained increased access to Japanese manufactured goods through the copra trade. [170] The islands of the South Seas Mandate featured in the popular culture of interwar Japan.
' built island '), was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan, that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1858). [1] For 220 years, it was the central conduit for foreign trade and cultural exchange with Japan during the isolationist Edo period (1600–1869), and the only Japanese ...
The Moluccas, often referred to as the "Spice Islands," were renowned for producing cloves, nutmeg, and mace—spices highly valued in Europe for their use in medicine, preservation, and flavoring food. Control over these islands meant access to immense wealth, making them a focal point of European colonial ambitions in the 16th and 17th centuries.
By 100 AD they were in the Marquesas Islands and 300-800 AD in Tahiti (Tahiti is west of the Marquesas.) 300-800 AD is also given for their arrival at Easter Island, their easternmost point and the same date range for Hawaii, which is far to the north and distant from other islands. Far to the southwest, New Zealand was reached about 1250 AD.